binding (of a book); design (of a book cover)
favourite book; favorite book
calm; composed; leisurely
indeed; really; truly; very much
delightful; joyous; joyful; happy; desirable; welcome
quantification; expressing in numerical form; conversion to numerical form
abundant harvest; bumper crop
wheat field; barley field; cornfield
index; index number; exponent (e.g. in floating-point representation); characteristic
the preceding year; the previous year; last year
handwriting; handwritten; hand-painted; hand-drawn
enumeration; citation; listing
dizziness; giddiness; vertigo
year by year; annually; every year; from year to year
to begin talking; to open up
decline; degeneration; decay; waning; ebbing
fall; decrease (in income)
reality; actuality; hard fact
unpleasant; disgusting; loathsome; shameful; scandalous
this and that; one thing or another
axis; shaft; center; centre; stalk; stem
gradations (on a ruler, thermometer, etc.); division; scale
rough (estimate, manner, etc.); crude; broad; loose; careless (work)
decrease; reduction; decline
to grow long (e.g. hair, nails); to lengthen; to extend; to reach out; to hold out; to straighten; to smooth out
amount left over; remaining portion
clear layer of fluid (at the top of a mixture); supernatant liquid; supernate
repeated cultivation damage (same crop, same soil); continuous cropping hazard; replant failure
a few years ago; some years back
to exceed (esp. figures: profits, unemployment rate, etc.); to surpass; to be more than; to be better than
(crop) damage owing to disease or blight
crop; crops; (agricultural) produce; farm products